Breathing Zone
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Mindful Breathing

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Description

Discover Mindfulness, one breath at a time.

● Time: "Calm yourself with Breathing Zone."● Harvard Health: "When you find yourself under stress, Breathing Zone can help."● Bloomberg: "The breathing trick that can make you more productive."● New York Magazine: "Sometimes the fastest way to combat anxiety or an oncoming panic attack is just to remember to breathe. I like Breathing Zone for its simplicity."● Self Magazine: "Just inhale. Then exhale. Download the Breathing Zone app for guided exercises."● Huffington Post: "An effective guide to mindful breathing."● LifeHacker: "Breathing Zone Guides you towards slower breathing to help reduce stress."● Fox News: "Breathing Zone simply trains you to slow down your breathing. In the process you calm down and relieve stress."● MacWorld: "If you slow your breathing, it can relax you; but it’s not easy to do this on your own, but Breathing Zone can help."● Gigaom: "Go beyond the basics and analyze your breathing patterns via your iPhone’s microphone with this app."● PoductivityBytes: "This app’s signature feature is the ability to analyze how you normally breathe in order to suggest the best routine for you."● University of Sydney: "Breathing Zone provides guidance on slow breathing."● Nursing Standard: "Breathing Zone offers simple guided breathing exercises, that are a useful introduction to the health benefits of slower, therapeutic breathing."● One Medical: "Therapeutic breathing benefits your brain and mood, and can actually help decrease your heart rate and lower high blood pressure. Breathing Zone offers detailed instructions and a Breathing Analyzer to measure your breathing rate."● AppAdvice: "Relax your mind and body in as little as 5 minutes with these doctor recommended breathing exercises."● HealthTap: "103 Doctors recommend this app."

What’s New

Version History

4.5

Jan 16, 2018

● New "White Noise" guide sound.● New Voice option for Apple Watch.

4.4

Jan 10, 2018

• New Apple Watch App.• New Breathing Pattern Options

4.3

Jan 2, 2018

Breathing Rate can be set in increments of 0.1 bpm.Tap "More Options" on Breathing Rate Setting Screen.

1.5

1.0

May 12, 2010

Jan 16, 2018

Version 4.5

● New "White Noise" guide sound.● New Voice option for Apple Watch.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5

795 Ratings

795 Ratings

Kathy-p
, 02/24/2018

Use it daily

Breathing Zone was a fantastic app that I used daily and have recommended to others. I was unhappy when they did an update in December 2017 which removed a few features I like. However, they have added back the ability to start a session at a faster breathing rate and have the app slowly guide you to your target rate. So I am back to using the app daily and would recommend it. I do wish they would add back the "celestial choir" voice. The progression of sounds of that voice helped me pace my breaths since I usually do my breathing exercises with my eyes closed. It is very useful having the human voice prompting you to breathe in and out.

Kathy-p
, 02/24/2018

Use it daily

Breathing Zone was a fantastic app that I used daily and have recommended to others. I was unhappy when they did an update in December 2017 which removed a few features I like. However, they have added back the ability to start a session at a faster breathing rate and have the app slowly guide you to your target rate. So I am back to using the app daily and would recommend it. I do wish they would add back the "celestial choir" voice. The progression of sounds of that voice helped me pace my breaths since I usually do my breathing exercises with my eyes closed. It is very useful having the human voice prompting you to breathe in and out.

kumasokka
, 12/24/2017

Formerly my fave app

I used to love this app! I used it every day for mindfulness. The app was very simple and well designed. My favorite feature was that it would automatically adjust the breathing rate down as you used it.

That is no longer this app, and I really really regret updating it. It seems now to be focused on gamification/metrics and no longer focused on mindfulness. These features that are designed to get the user more engaged with the app and spend more time in the app completely defeat the entire purpose of downloading it.

I recommended this app to many friends/family/colleagues/etc, and it is very unfortunate that the app has taken this step backward in functionality. Another example of this is the fact that the transitions between breathing rates now sound much rougher and unpleasant than before.

Really really baffled with this one. Will keep an eye on the comments to see if anyone has another app to recommend - a functional clone of the old Breathing Zone would be ideal!

I’m rating it 1 star because a previously extremely useful app has fallen victim to app trends that do nothing for the end user. I appreciate the beautiful new animations, but all the other additions (and the extremely baffling removal of good features) are pretty frustrating. I miss the simplicity of BZ.

kumasokka
, 12/24/2017

Formerly my fave app

I used to love this app! I used it every day for mindfulness. The app was very simple and well designed. My favorite feature was that it would automatically adjust the breathing rate down as you used it.

That is no longer this app, and I really really regret updating it. It seems now to be focused on gamification/metrics and no longer focused on mindfulness. These features that are designed to get the user more engaged with the app and spend more time in the app completely defeat the entire purpose of downloading it.

I recommended this app to many friends/family/colleagues/etc, and it is very unfortunate that the app has taken this step backward in functionality. Another example of this is the fact that the transitions between breathing rates now sound much rougher and unpleasant than before.

Really really baffled with this one. Will keep an eye on the comments to see if anyone has another app to recommend - a functional clone of the old Breathing Zone would be ideal!

I’m rating it 1 star because a previously extremely useful app has fallen victim to app trends that do nothing for the end user. I appreciate the beautiful new animations, but all the other additions (and the extremely baffling removal of good features) are pretty frustrating. I miss the simplicity of BZ.

Dashboard lite
, 01/02/2018

Thank you for fixing after the update

The app makers fixed the issue I complained below. It's back to its awesome state, now with better graphics. Five stars!

(Until a few days ago, you could set the app with a starting breathing rate and an ending one. Because of that feature, you could start with your regular pace (5 breaths a minute) and the app would gradually take your breath down to, say 2 or 3 breaths a minute. Now, with the update, you can only choose one rate.)

Dashboard lite
, 01/02/2018

Thank you for fixing after the update

The app makers fixed the issue I complained below. It's back to its awesome state, now with better graphics. Five stars!

(Until a few days ago, you could set the app with a starting breathing rate and an ending one. Because of that feature, you could start with your regular pace (5 breaths a minute) and the app would gradually take your breath down to, say 2 or 3 breaths a minute. Now, with the update, you can only choose one rate.)